Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1891 — Cropping the Hair. [ARTICLE]

Cropping the Hair.

At length it appears, says an exchange, that a radical change in the fashion of arranging woman’s greatest glory, her hair, is really to take place. We hear rumors of impending innovation from headquarters —in other words, from Paris. It is probable, though, that they will here be simply voices in the air and nothing more for some time still. First, because a new fashion never gets fairly started with us until it is almost an old one on the other side (this statement may sound both unfair and unpleasant, but it is literally exact, nevertheless), and then become the close, prim, demure little coiffure a VAnglctUe which is now wom, and has been for the past two years or more, is exceptionally suited to the small, delioate head and slim face of the average American woman. It is not so well suited to the piquant, irregular-featured “minors” of the Parisieanes, however. Therefore they have begun to adopt a looser, softer, less severe style of coiffure. The hair will, during the winter, it seems, be wom lower on the neck in coils, braids, or curls, and in the evening, when flowers are added, they will be mounted in trailing sprays and garlands, to fall gracely on the said coils, braids, or curls. The latter (the curls) are apparently destined again to most especial favor. And there have been recently a number of young ladies seen abroad with their hair cropped short like a boy’s, and onrled in flu£fv rings all over the head, after that same fashion so very much in vogue about ten years ago. There are faces to which it is an undeniably becoming coiffure, this. But as to its being generally becoming, or even remotely so—that is not, assuredly. A blonde, rather small and delicate and vivacious, with eyes soft, silky hair, and rather a child-like faoe, perhaps, looks most charming with her sunny halo of clustering rings, quite a cherub, and probably ten years younger than she is. We knew a Polish lady some few years ago, with a pretty, pale, spirituelle face, ash-blonde hair, dark-brown eyes, and a mole on her left cheek, whe bad adopted this coiffure, with a black velvet and blue ribbon passed across the front occasionally, and it suited her to absolute perfection. But then there are hosts of women who, after they have made the sacrifice of hair for a passing of fashion, look anything but well with cropped and curly heads—in fact, look quite deoidedly the opposite from well. And it is no small sacrifice for a woman with a fine suit of hair to have it hut off, either. The result should pay very well to make the performance at all satisfactory. It is one of those cases in whiob the immortal Shakespeare’s counsel to look before we leap may be pondered With good effect.

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